As Chien-Ming Wang falters, LaTroy Hawkins flies wearing No. 22
This is what happens when pitchers face the same team five days apart in April: Early familiarity breeds chaos. How else to explain the stark contrast between last Friday night - when Chien-Ming Wang and his Red Sox counterpart, rookie Clay Buchholz, locked up in a nifty pitching duel at Fenway Park - and Wednesday night, when neither made it past the fifth inning? Consider them victims of this nutty schedule that has these two ancient rivals facing off in home-and-home April series with just two games in between. Continue

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